Manuscripts Department
           Library of the University of North Carolina
                         at Chapel Hill

                GENERAL AND LITERARY MANUSCRIPTS

                            #11044-z
               WILLIAM ALEXANDER GERHARDIE PAPERS
                            Inventory

Abstract:      William Alexander Gerhardie, was born of English
           parents in St. Petersburg, Russia, and educated there
           and at Oxford.  He served in World War I, became
           military attach‚ to the British Embassy at Petrograd,
           and went with the British Military Mission to Siberia,
           1918-1920.  His novels include Futility: a Novel on
           Russian Themes (1922); The Polyglots (1925); and
           Resurrection (1934), an autobiographical novel that
           argues for the immortality of the soul.  His critical
           writings include Anton Chekhov (1923); Memoirs of a
           Polyglot (1931), and The Romanoffs (1940),
           substantially a history of Russia.
               Letters 1925-1972 chiefly from Gerhardie to
           others.  Letters in the 1920s include complaints
           relating to Gerhardie's finances, but also discuss his
           writing plans.  Letters 1967-1972 are from Gerhardie
           to his friends Karin and Giacomo and mainly discuss
           Gerhardie's health and progress on planning and
           writing a tetralogy that he appears not to have
           completed.

Online Catalog Terms:
   Authors, English--History--20th century.
   Gerhardie, William Alexander, 1805-1977.

Size:  15 items (1 folder).

Provenance:    Transferred from the Rare Book Collection,
               University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, in
               December 1994 (Acc. 94173).

Access:        No restrictions.

Related Collection:    Gerhardie volumes in the Rare Book
                       Collection, UNC-CH.

Copyright: Retained by the authors of items in these papers, or
           their descendants, as stipulated by United States
           copyright law.